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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
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higher education law
key organizations (criminology)
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
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Date: 1987McCleskey v. Kemp
Definition(s)
- McCleskey v. Kemp was a Supreme Court decision in 1987 that upheld the use of the death penalty, which was challenged by Warren McCleskey (who was black) as unconstitutional due to racial biases in sentencing and in the administration of capital punishment in Georgia. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; McCleskey v. Kemp]
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- Date: 1987
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-TGQPH5HQ-M
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